Let me tell you how I "feel"

Is this the final destination after 200 years of evolving political theory?

The coincidence of the politics of feeling and an apolitical populism is one of the distinctive features of contemporary protest. By focusing on an individual politician's personality, it personalises politics. But even more importantly, protest has become a strikingly personal matter. It is about the protester as an individual, and says more about how he feels about himself than what he thinks of the issue at stake. That is why it is difficult to define today's acts of protest as constituting a political movement. On the contrary: they are the product of a profound mood of political disengagement that afflicts most Western societies.

To tell the truth, I don't think this is the end-game of our political development. Unfortunately it is becoming obvious that todays protests aren't actually defined by a political movement, but by a desire for some Utopian wonderland where moral equivalance is in the preamble to the Declaration of Inter-dependence.